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When will a distant relative I've never met and know nothing about disappear under mysterious circumstances having, inexplicably, bequeathed me their remote, over-grown, and deeply haunted country estate?

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reverse murder mystery: “who the hell reanimated this person?”

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no one is allowed to have a take on zeus and hera's marriage unless they know about/have read the wooden bride myth

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How to avoid White Room Syndrome

by Writerthreads on Instagram

A common problem writers face is "white room syndrome"—when scenes feel like they’re happening in an empty white room. To avoid this, it's important to describe settings in a way that makes them feel real and alive, without overloading readers with too much detail. Here are a few tips below to help!

Focus on a few key details

You don’t need to describe everything in the scene—just pick a couple of specific, memorable details to bring the setting to life. Maybe it’s the creaky floorboards in an old house, the musty smell of a forgotten attic, or the soft hum of a refrigerator in a small kitchen. These little details help anchor the scene and give readers something to picture, without dragging the action with heaps of descriptions.

Engage the senses

Instead of just focusing on what characters can see, try to incorporate all five senses—what do they hear, smell, feel, or even taste? Describe the smell of fresh bread from a nearby bakery, or the damp chill of a foggy morning. This adds a lot of depth and make the location feel more real and imaginable.

Mix descriptions with actions

Have characters interact with the environment. How do your characters move through the space? Are they brushing their hands over a dusty bookshelf, shuffling through fallen leaves, or squeezing through a crowded subway car? Instead of dumping a paragraph of description, mix it in with the action or dialogue.

Use the setting to reflect a mood or theme

Sometimes, the setting can do more than just provide a backdrop—it can reinforce the mood of a scene or even reflect a theme in the story. A stormy night might enhance tension, while a warm, sunny day might highlight a moment of peace. The environment can add an extra layer to what’s happening symbolically.

Here's an example of writing a description that hopefully feels alive and realistic, without dragging the action:

The bookstore was tucked between two brick buildings, its faded sign creaking with every gust of wind. Inside, the air was thick with the scent of worn paper and dust, mingling with the faint aroma of freshly brewed coffee from a corner café down the street. The wooden floorboards groaned as Ella wandered between the shelves, her fingertips brushing the spines of forgotten novels. Somewhere in the back, the soft sound of jazz crackled from an ancient radio.

Hope these tips help in your writing!

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On the one hand, the absolute and highly valued cultural worth the Ancient Greeks put in the lyre and playing the lyre. It's never going to lose that place or space - Apollo never gets associated away from the lyre or the kithara!

And on the other, the way at least conservative elements needed to adjust that image of Apollo, because the associations becoming attached to the kitharode was...

Yeah.

(The Culture of Kitharoidia by Timothy Power.)

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Day 1: Apollo

Interpretation notes and trivia under the cut!

His interpretation for my work is based very much around the concept of his manifestation as the Radiant God of the String. Because of this, quite like Hecate, he’s triple-fold and occupies three major spaces; the string of Fate and therefore prophecy, the bowstring and therefore distance and destruction and the lyrestring and therefore music and order. He’s a somewhat melancholy figure all things considered - Fate and following Fate’s tennants is something that he struggled a lot with as a child and even now as a more mature deity, the only solution he’s truly found is to take things one day at a time. Very diligent and fastidious, he’s a hard worker and tends to put his everything into completing any task set before him which also tends to work to his disadvantage since he’s prone to becoming tunnel-visioned until he’s finished what he said he would finish. His family orchestrated his winter breaks because he had the nasty habit of working himself sick when he was still very young.

Apollo is generally represented by circles in my work - priests of Apollo will be marked with at least three circles on their face and usually wear triangular jewellry (typically earrings or necklace charms) to reflect the triple-nature of their god. His favoured colour is a rich, deep blue and while he typically wears elaborate eye paint, he rarely uses face powders. Wears gem-toned blues for his lips unless in mourning where he will leave himself unadorned and unpainted out of respect.

Some quick trivia: 

Was born identical to Artemis even though they were born (years) apart. Had brown hair, wolf’s ears and fangs and horns when he was a child but never manifested those features again after his penance for slaying Python. If he’s very stressed or angry, sometimes his fangs will show. The brown of his hair grew out to blond naturally as he developed and matured as a god.

Proficient in all instruments but has always especially preferred stringed instruments. Truly unmatched with a kithara but only uses it for special occasions and official meetings. Generally prefers his lyre for every day usage

Really good at sewing and braiding strings together due to the exercises he had to do while under the tutelage of the Moirai sisters. Can’t weave since Athena banned him from touching a loom but he does like watching her spin. The one time she caught him trying to replicate her patterns with a needle and thread, she complained to Zeus that he had broken his oath. He teases her about that even now.

Was the last of the Twelve to learn how to read and write because he hates letter systems and finds it too arbitrary. Prior to the collaboration that resulted in written letter systems, everyone was perfectly fine with remembering the important stuff and encoding the rest in artistic format such as tapestries, pottery, furniture and jewellry. Apollo himself has a truly formidable memory since he’s been composing and immortalising the events and histories of the world in song since he was very young. He finds written books very dull but Clio’s very insistent about written histories being important and convenient so reluctantly, he’s given permission for his songs and poems to be -gags- transcribed and written down.

Is only called Apollo by his parents, Artemis and Dionysus. Hermes rarely calls him by name in general and the others, including other siblings like Ares and Athena, have always called him Phoebus. Interestingly, Zeus usually calls him Phoebus but will call him Apollo when they are alone or when he’s being especially serious. Apollo is completely comfortable with either name but he does see Phoebus as a bit more formal than Apollo. (Despite his best efforts, both Calliope and Clio also still stubbornly call him Phoebus though he’s fairly sure it’s mostly because they know it bothers him.)

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Apollo

Απολλων [Apollo] God of prophecy and oracles, music, song and poetry, archery, healing, plague and disease

Epithets: ⟡ Proopsios [Foreseeing] ⟡ Phoibos [Bright] ⟡ Akestor [Healer] ⟡ Alexikakos [Averter of Evil] ⟡ Theoxenios [ God of Foreigners ] ⟡ Pythios [Slayers of Python] ⟡ Chrusaor [Of Golden Sword] ⟡ Daphnephorios [Bearer of Laurels] ⟡ Loimios [ Deliverer from Pague] ⟡ Moiragetes [Leader of Fate] ⟡ Pagasios [Pagasaean] ⟡ Hekaergos [Far-shooting]

Domains: ⟡ Prophecy & Oracles ⟡ Light ⟡ Music & Arts ⟡ Song & poetry ⟡ Archery ⟡ Healing & medicine ⟡ Plague & Disease ⟡ Protection of the young ⟡ Boys ⟡ Sudden Death ⟡ Knowledge ⟡ Herds & Flocks ⟡ Protector of Fugitives

Devotional acts: ⟡ Donate to medical charities ⟡ Draw or Paint ⟡ Read poetry or listen to music ⟡ Sing or play an instrument ⟡ Go to the library

Associations

Symbol: ⟡ The Lyre ⟡ Silver bow & Arrows ⟡ Dolphins ⟡ Swans ⟡ Crows ⟡ Ravens ⟡ Lions ⟡ Wolves ⟡ Mice ⟡ Griffins ⟡ Hawks ⟡ Snakes ⟡ Laurel wreath ⟡ Fire / flame ⟡ The sun / Light ⟡ Tripod ⟡ Apples

Element: ⟡ Light

Color: ⟡ Orange ; yellow ; Gold ⟡ Red ⟡ Pure white ⟡ Pink ⟡ Purple ⟡ Green ⟡ Blue

Crystals & stones: ⟡ Sunstone ⟡ Amber ⟡ Honey ; Yellow Calcite ⟡ Rutilated ; Clear ; Rose quartz

Fruits,Vegetables,Flowers,Herbs: ⟡ Cypress ⟡ Laurel ⟡ Larkspur ⟡ The-apple-tree ⟡ The palm tree ⟡ Hyacinth

Animal: ✧Swan ⟡ Raven ⟡ Tortoise ⟡ Serpent ⟡ Wolf ⟡ Dolphin ⟡ Mouse

Incense: ✧ Bay ⟡ Frankincense ⟡ Cypress

Food & Drinks: ⟡ Red wine ⟡ Olive oil ⟡ Water ⟡ Fruit ⟡ Honey ⟡ Almonds ⟡ Citruses ⟡ Cinnamon ⟡ Coffee ⟡ Herbal tea with Honey cakes ⟡ Bay leaves ⟡ Anise

Day, Season, Time of Day: ✧ Sunday ⟡ Middsummer ⟡ Midday ⟡ May

Tarot: ✧ The Sun ⟡ The chariot ⟡ Strength ⟡ Temperance

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Hehe

I first saw the statue with the pigeon on Pinterest. Someone left the comment “is that Hermes?”

…they definitely meant the statue. But I’m always going to think the pigeon is Hermes now 🤪

Hehe, have this

this is where I got the idea from

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It’s mentioned on Wikipedia, but there’s no source listed. If anyone has one, please share it ( @my-name-is-apollo any ideas?)

I've read somewhere that the main reason why Apollo is unmarried is because he loved the Muses, but couldn't marry all of them. Yet I cannot remember where is this thing mentioned.

But if this is actually real then it would be hilarious af.

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Places I didn't expect to find Admetus:

...the chariot race in The Thebaid. He's only in there for a couple of paragraphs, but man... the feels.

Context: this occurs in book six during (I assume?) the Nemean games. For those who have never heard of the Thebaid, it's a Roman retelling of the Seven Against Thebes, aka the fallout from Oedipus. During a break in the march to the city, various mythological notables come to take part in a chariot race. As well as the heroes of the poem, this includes Theseus, Hercules (and Hylas), and of all people, Admetus.

Timeline-wise, we're post Alcestis, though for some reason Admetus is being referred to as a prince instead of a king. Roman dislike of kings coming through maybe? (Edit: I’ve been informed the original Latin did call him a king; prince was a translator choice *shrug*) In any case, I'm pretty sure his purpose for appearing is to serve as a kind of foil for Amphiaraus; the best bits come when Apollo notices them both and goes off on a monologue:

Both are devoted to me, and both are dear; nor could I say which holds first place. AW 😍

The one, when I served as thrall on Pelian ground... burnt incense to his slave, nor dared to deem me his inferior. This interested me, because while it's not usually made clear whether Admetus knows who Apollo is while he's serving him, I'd kinda assumed he didn't know (that's how I wrote it in God of the Golden Bow). In this version, he definitely DID know (and was smarter than Laomedon).

For Admetus is old age ordained, and a late death; to thee [Amphiaraus] no joys remain.

The contrast: the one whose fate Apollo was able to change, and the one he won't be able to save 🥲

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True that.

Like, intellectually I know that if I ever actually met Augustus, I probably wouldn’t like him.

At a distance of 2000 years, however, he’s basically the embodiment of You’re Gonna Go Far Kid by The Offspring, and that’s awesome.

The first rule of studying history is to always try to look for primary sources to check your information, and remember that even those have to be examined critically

The second rule of studying history is that a person can be both one of the worst people to ever walk the earth and a babygirl

Hope this helps!

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Don’t mind me, just collecting stuff related to prophet!Apollo for reasons….

Today on funny shit that Lucian has written - Zeus getting worried when Apollo enters a prophetic trance:

Lucian, Zeus Tragodeus

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Thank you for the tag 🥹🥹

Just the usual obsession - Apollo and Admetus (and this picture by OSP that intro’d me to the myth lol). Also Celtic!Apollo, specifically Maponos, but image not found there :/

cute thing im coming up with

this picrew of yourself and your current hyperfixation !!

no pressure tags @pearlzier @julesssyy @reidsfavoritegirl @whitney23317 @willowsblanket @flowercrownsandtrauma @rottenletter

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Hair?? Wings??? Hair-wings????

Damn that looks cool!

HC/AU (idk which one this goes to :P) where prophetic gods, like Phoebe, Themis and Apollo, usually have their eyes closed/covered since it helped them focus more to see through their other eyes (aka, lowkey wanted to try drawing Apollo with a more eldritch design ^^;)